TulaCo gets hired when a technology team needs to rapidly develop, retool, or scale a large web application or platform and there's no time to acquire the additional manpower or dev experience and still quickly meet the business need. To do so TulaCo hires only expert developers with an average of 8 years of experience in complex development environments, structures dev teams so that technical architects and project managers (who are skilled in synthesizing business requirements from across the company) are always available for in-person meetings, and puts in place robust workflow processes to mesh seamlessly with client personnel.

TulaCo's expert development teams take the time to deeply understand the business goals from across a wide range of stakeholders before they start coding, and are equally skilled in creating tight integration with in-house tech leadership once a project begins. TulaCo's deep bench (over 150 developers and growing) ensures that even the largest of projects can be quickly spooled up - but just as easily ramped down as projects conclude and go into maintenance mode.

The executive team at TulaCo intimately understands the problems that can accompany the choice to utilize an external development resource - "can't ramp or change direction quickly, lack expertise, don't integrate well with the internal tech team..." - and, as their satisfied list of over 75 clients will attest, has made it their mission to knock down each of these barriers to a successful engagement.

It's an added bonus that TulaCo's unique team structure (that locates client-facing Project Managers and Technical Architects locally in the U.S. and employs best-of-breed coders in Russia and Belarus) yields an average 50% cost savings over entirely U.S.-based development firms without sacrificing any of the benefits of in-person, always-available contact.

Trusted Partner

Successful engagements with over 75 companies, varying in size from from Startups to Enterprises

Expert Resources

175+ employees worldwide with Architects and Project Managers based in the U.S.

Development Expertise

Domain Expertise

We specialize in large-scale platform development for the Consumer Internet, especially Social/Digital Media, Online Advertising, E-Commerce

Our Goal is to Mesh with Your Internal Team and Become an Extension of Your People. We'll help you get more done in less time

Learn More

We Offer Unmatched Expertise in Development for the Consumer Internet and Social Media

While TulaCo has successfully developed innovative solutions for its clients across a wide range of verticals and types of engagements, the firm's domain expertise is unparalleled when it comes to developing massively scalable platforms in the Consumer Internet/Social Media space. The TulaCo team's most visible accomplishment in this regard is the creation and rollout of "Viacom Flux," which serves as the Content Management System/Social Media platform that currently powers over 80% of Viacom Inc's and its subsidiaries web properties.

We Foster Seamless Integration with Your Internal Technology Team

We believe it is critical for long-term project success that our personnel strive for productive and seamless interactions with the architects, PMs, and developers that you employ. Our goal is to mesh as much as possible with your internal team and become an extension of your people that helps you get more done more quickly.

We Have Perfected the Efficiency and Productivity of the "3.5 Model"

Over a decade has gone into the development of what we call the "3.5 Staffing Model" - a codename for the core team with which we staff a typical engagement. "3.5" means that any team assigned to a client is comprised (at a minimum) of a combined half FTE of a local, always available project manager as well as a technical architect, and 3 dedicated developers based in Eastern Europe. We have found that this is the optimal team size that creates maximum
communication, efficiency, and price/value for our clients, and lets us accomplish an
astounding amount of work in a short period of time - and if we need to scale the team up we simply double or triple this core "molecule."

We Listen to Stakeholders Company-Wide and Then Code

TulaCo's customer-facing project managers and technical architects are skilled at navigating the often complex waters of an organization's many stakeholders, and ensuring that
functional requirements and desired features are elicited from all corners of the organization. We feel doing this before any coding begins maximizes the chance of building the end
product the whole organization wants and needs.

Burstly

Burstly is a mobile application management platform that includes an ad-server, ad-sales tools, in-app purchase management tools, CRM + loyalty system and analytics. It serves over 7B impressions per day and is used by three quarters of iPhone and Android developers.

Reduced interdependency of application components by implementing a modular architecture with uniform communication bus based on WCF and RabbitMQ.

Designed and implemented different deployment and development processes for Ad Server and WebUI components of the system to achieve better performance and availability.

Re-architected application to be cloud provider agnostic with support for geographically distributed farms. Migrated from a single local hosting company to multiple vendors with multiple locations.

Studio System by Baseline

Studio System is a provider of entertainment data and research to the professional entertainment industry (like LinkedIn for TV and Film professionals). It owns and manages several actively used subscription-based entertainment data websites that cater to the needs of entertainment executives, producers, agents, managers, and talent.

TulaCo deployed 3 dedicated offshore teams to work simultaneously on the re-platforming of the core TSS product, mobile applications and content news sites.

MindMixer

MindMixer is a social platform which helps create better communities by involving people in things they care about. Leveraging the power of the Internet and social media, MindMixer’s online engagement tools connect organizations with community members who might not otherwise get involved. It's an online town hall meeting that everybody can access from their computer or tablet - whenever they want it.

Re-architected from the ground up by TulaCo, this social platform was designed to scale, and is now serving thousands of small cities across the US and beyond.

TulaCo collaborated closely with MindMixer's Product and Business stakeholders to optimize development processes and to maximize output and quality utilizing Agile methodology best practices.

One of the biggest challenges during post-release support of the project was to deploy an independent instance on Canada's government servers. This was successfully achieved as planned as a result of seamless team collaboration and a well architected platform.